Recently, I had a conversation around the lunch table with several of my colleagues. The discussion turned to the requirement to take pedagogical courses, now part of the criteria for getting an ...

The lecture is one of the oldest forms of education there is. "Before printing someone would read the books to everybody who would copy them down," says Joe Redish, a physics professor at the ...

The conventional method of lecturing in classrooms for teaching will be replaced shortly in pharmacy colleges in India with international method of interaction between students and instructors, where ...

Skip this paragraph if at any point it sounds familiar. A stereotypical American college student — let’s call him Michael Normalperson — goes to a college lecture class. He is bored. The time he doesn ...

It's a typical scene: a few minutes before 11:00 on a Tuesday morning and about 200 sleepy-looking college students are taking their seats in a large lecture hall - chatting, laughing, calling out to ...

The revolution in molecular biology that began nearly 50 years ago has had an enormous impact in the lab, but it also triggered a quieter revolution in undergraduate teaching. How has it affected the ...

On a December night, hundreds gathered in Georgetown University’s ornate Gaston Hall. Students and young alumni, professors and think-tank scholars, Jesuits and Dominicans came from down the street ...